http://www.govinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=1697 By Eric Chabrow Managing Editor Gov Info Security August 11, 2009 What's most important about the job of presidential cybersecurity coordinator isn't whether or not it reports to two bosses or how high on the White House organizational chart it appears or, for that matter, when President Obama will reveal his choice, says cybersecurity sage Howard Schmidt. "The two key things that we need to worry about here is one, first and foremost, and that is the fact that this is a presidential imperative and the president recognizes that we have to do this right and we just can't go out and sort of fill this for the sake of meeting some particular deadline," Schmidt says, in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com (transcript below). Seeing the fundamentals in a situation is a strong characteristic that has placed Schmidt on nearly every list of a prospective White House cybersecurity czar. In the field of IT security, Schmidt has done it all. He spent more than 30 years in public service, including a stint as a White House special adviser on cyberspace security and as chief strategist for the US-CERT Partners Program at Homeland Security. He serves on an IT privacy board that advises the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Commerce Department and White House. In the private sector, Schmidt has held top IT security posts at Microsoft and eBay. An author of two IT security books, Schmidt has academic affiliations with Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon and Idaho State University. Schmidt is the first and current president of the Information Security Forum, an independent, not-for-profit association aimed harnessing the brainpower of public and private-sector experts in IT security and risk management. In an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com's Eric Chabrow, Schmidt discusses the: * Crucial role Obama's cybersecurity coordinator will play in managing federal IT security policy. * Challenges the federal government faces in developing a cybersecurity culture. * Providing IT security with limited funds due to the recession. * Need for international cooperation in battling cyber threats. Eric Chabrow, GovInfoSecurity.com managing editor, interviewed Schmidt. [...] ________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Thu Aug 13 2009 - 02:10:03 PDT
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